{"id":13440,"date":"2018-06-22T13:50:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T17:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=13440"},"modified":"2018-06-22T13:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T17:50:39","slug":"wawa-is-a-great-place-to-have-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/22\/wawa-is-a-great-place-to-have-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawa is a great place to have children!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Jun 22, 2018 @ 13:01<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/loonmarcus-0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13442\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/loonmarcus-0001-600x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/loonmarcus-0001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/loonmarcus-0001-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/loonmarcus-0001-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13443 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/loonmarcus-0001-2-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/loonmarcus-0001-2-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/loonmarcus-0001-2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Residents of Wawa have known\u00a0for years that Wawa is a great place to bring up children. Apparently, this loon agrees with that sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Marcus Grundt caught her with her incredible brood cruising Wawa Lake this morning. This photo was taken with a 600mm lens as to avoid disturbing her. She has an amazing 8 chicks. Loons normally have 1-2 chicks. So unless she&#8217;s babysitting &#8211; this is very unusual. The hatchlings leave the nest on their first day and are able to fly in about 11 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you see Momma Loon, please don&#8217;t disturb her and the babies, admire the family from a distance.\u00a0Marine craft, (motor boats\/kayaks\/paddleboards\/sailboats) should stay well away from swimming birds, particularly when they are with chicks that are too young to dive or fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 22, 2018 @ 13:01 &nbsp; Residents of Wawa have known\u00a0for years that Wawa is a great place to bring up children. Apparently, this loon agrees with that sentiment. &nbsp; Photographer Marcus Grundt caught her with her incredible brood cruising Wawa Lake this morning. This photo was taken with a 600mm lens as to avoid &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 04:13:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13444,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440\/revisions\/13444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}